Tuesday, February 17, 2015

GG über alles

Reading Gerd Gigerenzer's "Mindless Statistics" (here).

In a café. Back in Berlin. A better blogger would include quotations from this splendid article, but we at pp are somewhat threadbare after months of showing the flag.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

"sigh"

Reading Michael Booth's The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia.

Bought for my Kindle off Amazon.com, even though I'm in London, because Amazon fought me tooth and nail when I tried to change the location of my Kindle and buy off Amazon.co.uk.

This turns out to mean I get an Americanized version of the book.

"Not all nationalism is bad, for a start," he told me over the phone from his home in Sheffield, England.

I spent some time in Vermont. I sometimes explained that I normally lived in Berlin. I would then need to specify: Berlin, Germany. (There is a Berlin, Vermont.) I am trying to imagine the circumstances in which I would not go berserk if required to specify this in a book destined for publication.